Qualcomm’s newest chips for wearables promise longer battery life, higher efficiency, and different enhancements. On Tuesday, Qualcomm formally unveiled the Snapdragon W5 Gen 1 and Snapdragon W5+ Gen 1 wearable platforms.
The 2 platforms are designed for wearables, with each promising as much as 50% extra battery life and two-times the efficiency of the 4100+ platform — all in a smaller, 4nm design.
The W5+ is particularly designed for the smartwatch phase, whereas the W5 is supposed for extra specialised wearables similar to smartwatches for teenagers, seniors, or the enterprise phase.
The W5+ chip contains low-power Bluetooth 5.3 connectivity, and low-power options for Wi-Fi, GNS and audio, and low-power states referred to as Deep Sleep and Hibernate.
Here is a chart from Qualcomm breaking down the important thing variations between the earlier 4100+ platform and the brand new W5+ platform:
After all, these chips are going to be what powers the following era of {hardware} that is designed to run Put on OS by Google, the wearable working system that has seen an uptick in curiosity after Google and Samsung revamped the OS for the Galaxy Watch 4 lineup.
With a extra highly effective processor, presumably, Google and its many {hardware} companions could have the flexibility to get extra out of Put on OS as an entire.
In actual fact, Qualcomm claims there are already 25 designs being labored on by totally different {hardware} makers that may use the W5 or W5+. There are new reference designs from Compal and Pegatron, whereas Oppo and Mobvoi have each dedicated to being the primary to launch {hardware} utilizing the W5 and the W5+, respectively.
